St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-04
They Send Greeting to the President,
and Repudiate the Action of Gen.
futile ct al.
A Leading Citizen Of Mandan, Dak., Has
Rather Sensational Row With
Judge.
The Iron Range Near Duluth the Scene
of a Great Deal of Financial
Activity.
4 Queer Case at Des Moines---The Gen.
eral Budget of Northwest
ern News.
Special to the Globe.

WASHINGTON, Aug. s. Gen. Rose
Grams to-day called upon the president
and in presenting certain resolutions
said:
'Mr. President: At the request of the Ma
tlonal Veterans association of DeS Moines,
Ia, in mass convention assembled on the
10Th day of July alt, have the honor to
present to you this engrossed copy of the
resolutions then passed, declaring the view
of these veterans regarding the attempt of
certain officers and members of the society of
the Grand Army of the Republic to prevent
the president of the United States from ac-
cepting the hospitality rendered to him by
the city of st. Louis, on the occasion of the
meeting of the national encampment of the
G. A. r., which mad voted to become her
me pleasure to perform the duty
and state my concurrence in the
sentiments expressed i'll those resolutions. L
am pleased to say that believe the general
tenor of those resolutions is in accord with
the views and feelings of the vast majority
of members of the G.. A. r. as to the loyal re-
spect due the chief magistrate of the union,
aud as to the impropriety of denouncing him
for doing what he believes to be his official
duty. feel equally assured that these send-
ments will command the assent of that much
larger body of ex-uniOn soldiers not belong
ing to the society of G. A. r. who are surviv-
ing members of the real grand army of the
republic, which, after having saved the ma
tons life, dissolved and joined the great in
dustral body which assures the wealth. the
glory and the prosperity of our Country
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
replying to Gen. RoSecranS said:
Without reading the resolutions presented
by you in such gratifying manner, have
only to say that, judging from the tenor of
your remarks the action of the veterans
mentioned is III the direction of acknowledge
ing the duty which devolves upon them as
veterans, to emphasize the value OF their SER
thn fialH ht-rN pi
and to demonstrate the same bravery shown
IN battle by courage no less conspicuous
when called upon to defend and maintain
that freedom and patriotism which in peace
is the safety of American institutions. I'm
derstanding this to be the purpose of the res
olutions am glad to receive them at your
hands.
THE LETTER TO BLACK.
Gen. ROsecranS to day sent the follow
ing uote to Commissioner Black, with
copies of the resolutions:
General: In compliance with the request
contained in the accompanying letter from
the chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions it affords me great pleasure to present
an engrossed copy of the resolutions, eX-
pressing the sentiments of the Democratic
veterans of the National Veteran association
of Des MOines, To-, in mass convention as
sembled July 10, 1887. These resolutions
sre replete with patriotism, good. sense and
just denunciation of the disloyalty to the
eiety OF the Grand Army of the Republic,
manifested in the recent attempts of certain
officers and members of the organization to
raise for partisan purposes an .outcry
against the chief magistrate of the
nation, and to prevent him from
accepting the hospitalities rendered
him by the city of st. Louis at the same time
that the national encampment of the order
had accepted an invitation to a generous
welcome. No less gratifying are the declara-
tions 0of the resolutions, characteriZing as
wholly impatible with that loyalty which is
one of the three fundamentals of that soci-
ETY., the attempt to use its voice i'll denuncia-
ton of the president for the discharge of
painful duty according to his judgment and
conscience. When it is remembered that
largely more than One-half of the rank and
file of the Union army, probably of those
enlsting for the three-months service, and
certainly of those who came in afterwards
were either Democratic or merely Union men,
it will be plainly seen why the G. A. r. as a
Republican machine was miserable failure;
why it at a later time only revived when
on-partisanship was made fundamental
why the hypocrisy of violating this principle
by taking small, partisan advantages in the
choice of the officers, posts and commanders,
and the paying of special public favors and
honOrs TO commanders of the Republican
persuasion, has hitherto created such dis
trust of its spirit as to prevent the society
from including double, and possibly triple
its present membership, and commanding
loyalty which covered with glory
its members during the dark
days of the war for the Union. The
resolutions will say, "If this spirit of parti-
sanship cannot be restrained it will be a mat
ter to be considered whether the survivors of
the real Grand Army of the Republic would
not better have some other organiZa-
tion.'' / take pleasure in noting the just
commentator given in these resolutions to
the administration of the pension Office
since you have been commissioner of pen
sions, Yours truly w. S. RosEcRANs.